How to select option in drop down using Capybara

Question

For some reason it didn't work for me. So I had to use something else.

select "option_name_here", :from => "organizationSelect"

worked for me.

If you take a look at the source of the select method, you can see that what it does when you pass a from key is essentially:

find(:select, from, options).find(:option, value, options).select_option

In other words, it finds the <select> you're interested in, then finds the <option> within that, then calls select_option on the <option> node.

You've already pretty much done the first two things, I'd just rearrange them. Then you can tack the select_option method on the end:

find('#organizationSelect').find(:xpath, 'option[2]').select_option

another option is to add a method like this

  def select_option(css_selector, value)
    find(:css, css_selector).find(:option, value).select_option
  end

To add yet another answer to the pile (because apparently there's so many ways of doing it depending on your setup) - I did it by selecting the literal option element and clicking it

find(".some-selector-for-dropdown option[value='1234']").select_option

It's not very pretty, but it works :/

Unfortunately, the most popular answer did not work for me entirely. I had to add .select_option to end of the statement

select("option_name_here", from: "organizationSelect").select_option

without the select_option, no select was being performed

none of the answers worked for me in 2017 with capybara 2.7. I got "ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 0)"

But this did:

find('#organizationSelect').all(:css, 'option').find { |o| o.value == 'option_name_here' }.select_option